NoSQL No More: Let’s double down with MoreSQL. Alex Tatiyants with an impassioned plea for programmers to throw down these new fangled databases and return to a comfortable and much loved past. To bring this world about Alex wants SQL Everywhere, to spread FUD about NoSQL, and to recognize with enough effort SQL can work for every problem. This brave old vision should bring comfort everywhere to people wearing very small shoes.

SpiderDuck: Twitter's Real-time URL Fetcher. A service at Twitter that fetches all URLs shared in Tweets in real-time, parses the downloaded content to extract metadata of interest and makes that metadata available for other Twitter services to consume within seconds.

Someone actually trying to build the future instead of playing grownup FUD games: Big data requires fast networks - research network consisting of more than 12,000 miles of fiberoptic cable and capable of 100 Gigabits-per-second speed.

The Story of Networks as told by Amira Skomorowska. A great look at the immense reach of graph theory: the famous seven bridges, random networks, 6 degrees of separation, the strength of weak ties, controlling systems, the hidden influence of social networks, and the power of networks.

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On the Amazon spot market prices seeming high, there is speculation that Amazon is constraining supply. More in the comments over on James Hamilton's blog. Oh, and thanks for the link to my latest quick links post.